Burial-garment.



PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

G. BUESING.

BURIAL GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED OOT. 24.1904.

INVE/VTUR Erase Buea'zn Z wadmau WI TNESSES A TTORNEYS.

No. 789,354. Patented May 9, 1905.

ldn'i'rnn Smarts GRACE BUESING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JULIUS J. LAMBERI AND MORRIS FRANK, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

BURlAL-GARWIIENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,354, dated. May 9, 1905.

Application filed October 24,1904. Serial No. 229,703.

To (l/ll/ whom it may concern.- thereof is cut out to form a triangular recess Be it known that I, G-nAon BUESING, a citia and in practice a shirt-bosom 7) is stitched 5 zen of the United States, residingat New York, to a pasteboard or cardboard back a, and the in the county of New York and State of New parts or portions rt of the garment are stitched York, have invented certain new and useful to the shirt-bosom 7/ and to a pasteboard or Improvements in Burial-Garments, of which cardboard back 0 along the dotted line J, and the following is a specification, such as will the parts or portions (0, including the collar 55 enable those skilled in the art to which it apportions o are then folded outwardly along pertains to make and use the same. a dotted line 0, so as to form the lapels f of 10 This invention relates to burial-garments; the body portion of the garment, together and the object thereof is to provide an imwith the flaps or [lies f" of the collar portion. proved garment of this class which may be A collar 7 is then secured to the shirt-bosom 6o employed in connection with an ordinary around the neck-opening, and this collar is shroud in which the body is incased and which preferably open at the back, as shown at 7 will give the body the appearance of being and the ends of the collar of the garment are fully dressed when viewed in a casket. then tied at the back and to the back of the The invention is fully disclosed in the folcollar, as shown at The front adjacent lowing specification, of which the aceompaedges 11 0f the separate parts a, of the garment nying drawings form a part, in which the sepoverlap, as shown in Fig. 2, and are connect- 20 arate parts of my improvement are designated ed by means of buttons 7L, and in this way the by suitable reference characters in each of the garment is made to represent both a vest and views, and in which-- coat, and the vest may also be provided with Figure 1 1s a plan v1ew of one part of my lapels, if desired. improved burial-garment, two of which parts It will be understood that this garment 1s 2 5 are employed; Fig. 2, afront view of the garmade complete in all respects, as shown in ment complete, and Fig. 3 a section on the line Fig. 9., and ready to be applied whenever nec- 3 3 of Fig. 2. essary, all that is necessary in applying the In the practice of my invention I provide garment being to place the collar around the two similar parts or blanks a, one of which is neck and tie the ends thereof at the back, and 30 shown in Fig. 1, and these parts or blanks are in this way I provide a burial-garment which composed of a front portion a. of cloth, and is comparatively inexpensive. a back or lining a, of any suitable material, The back member 0, which forms a base or preferably of stiffening material, so that the support for the other parts of the garment, fronts (1/ when the garment is complete and may be made of other material, and the front 35 said fronts folded, as hereinafter described, parts a of the garment may also be composed will be retained in proper shape. The parts of any preferred material, and changes in the or blanks a consist of a main or body portion form of said parts may be made without dea and a collar portion It, and the main or parting from the spirit of my invention or bod y portion (l/is wider at the collar end theresacrificing its ad vantages.

4 of than at the other end and is of a length Having fully described my invention, what equal to that of the required garment, and the I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters said main or body portion a! is tapered from Patent, is the collar end to the waist end, and said main The herein-described burial-garment. comor body portion is also cut out at the front posed of two parts, said parts each compris- 45 edge thereof to form a breast-opening rt, ing a body portion and a collar portion, the when the garmentiscomplete. Theneck part body portion being wider at the collar end or portion a is of such shape as to form. onethan at the waist end, and the front edge adhalf of a complete collar, and the neck edge jacent to the collar portion being cut out to form a breast-opening for the garment, the my invention 1 have signed my name, in prescollar portion being so shaped as to form oneence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 22d day half of the collar of the germcntzind the neck of October, 1904:.

edge thereof being provided with a triangu- GRACE BUESING. 5 lar recess, substantially as shown and de- \Vitnesses:

scribed. H. T. Looms,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I HATTIE HOGIMPSEY. 

